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The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660

CHAPTER I
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(2) The Protector's sister CATHERINE, _aetat._ 61, first married to a Roger Whetstone, a Parliamentarian officer, and afterwards to COLONEL JOHN JONES, member of the Long Parliament for Monmouthshire, and one of the Regicides.

He had been a member of the first and second Councils of the Commonwealth, had been for some time in Ireland as one of Fleetwood's Council, and was now a member of the Protector's Second Parliament.

(3) The Protector's youngest sister ROBINA, formerly the wife of a Peter French, D.D., but now the wife of DR.

JOHN WILKINS, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford.

Wilkins held the Wardenship by dispensation from Cromwell, his marriage in the office being against Statute.


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